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• Extreme weather: the new normal for Myanmar farmers
• Severe weather likely to continue
• Police make record US$106 million drug bust
• Eyes on Rakhine State as chief minister enters election fray
• Ethnic armed leaders discuss ceasefire
• Myanmar migrants nickled and dimed in Thailand
• Myanmar trafficking rank disappoints observers
• Vendors fear rising costs at Taungbyone festival
• Draft press council election rules block unregistered groups
• NGO vows to assist rejected candidates

Extreme weather: the new normal for Myanmar farmers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:42 PM PDT Recent flooding highlights the climactic challenges that upper Myanmar farmers are now facing on a regular basis.

Severe weather likely to continue Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:41 PM PDT Severe weather is expected to persist in parts of the country until the weekend, forecasters say.

Police make record US$106 million drug bust Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:33 PM PDT Yangon police say they have made the country's largest-ever seizure of narcotics, valuing 2.67 tonnes of methamphetamine tablets found in the back of a truck parked on the city's outskirts at more than US$100 million.

Eyes on Rakhine State as chief minister enters election fray Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:27 PM PDT Rakhine State Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn will run for a seat in the Rakhine State Hluttaw, in a move that will likely fuel speculation that he is being lined up for a second tilt at the state's top job.

Ethnic armed leaders discuss ceasefire Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:26 PM PDT Leaders of 15 of Myanmar's armed ethnic groups are expected to wrap up discussions with their team of negotiators in Chiang Mai today, ahead of the planned resumption of nationwide ceasefire talks with the government in Yangon next week.

Myanmar migrants nickled and dimed in Thailand Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:22 PM PDT Migrant rights groups yesterday slammed the latest strategy to regularise undocumented Myanmar workers in Thailand as a money-making scheme.

Myanmar trafficking rank disappoints observers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:20 PM PDT The annual US Trafficking in Persons report was received yesterday with dismay by human rights experts, who allege that some of the worst offenders – including Myanmar – were let off the hook, despite doing little to better their abysmal records of contributing to modern-day slavery.

Vendors fear rising costs at Taungbyone festival Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:10 PM PDT One of Myanmar's most famous traditional festivals is plagued by rising costs, local shopkeepers are complaining.

Draft press council election rules block unregistered groups Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:08 PM PDT Industry associations that do not formally register with the government would have no voice in election.

NGO vows to assist rejected candidates Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:07 PM PDT An electoral NGO has said it will keep a close eye on whether the Union Election Commission rejects any of the candidates to be selected by political parties in advance of the November 8 election.

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